There is a virtual machine with Linux on VirtualBox. Extensions were installed for the guest operating system; A shared folder has been created through the virtual machine settings. However, the system does not see it. On a guest attempt to mount the folder did not succeed. The system simply does not see it. Tell me how to organize the ball between the guest system and the host? By the way, the clipboard does not work either.

  • The clipboard must first be enabled in the virtual box. I hope you did it? Give the error text when mounting. Maybe you incorrectly specify the name of the balls? - zenden2k
  • @ zenden2k, "The clipboard must first be included in the virtual box" - of course done!))) - neo
  • In the guest operating system, you need to install a package that contains the words virtualbox , guest and additions in the title / description. - aleksandr barakin

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When installing guest add-ons in Linux, make sure that the builds of the kernel add-ons guest modules fail to build. If there are no necessary packages in the system, the extensions will not be fully installed, hence they will not work properly.
Install the required packages and repeat installation of guest extensions.

To mount a folder, you can use the following command:
mount -t vboxsf -o rw,exec,auto,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0000,dmask=0000 ИМЯ_РЕСУРСА /ТОЧКА_МОНТИРОВАНИЯ

  • thanks for your reply! I try: mount -t vboxsf -o rw, exec, auto, uid = 1000, gid = 1000, fmask = 0000, dmask = 0000 myFolder / home. I get the error: /sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with such device: No such device - neo
  • This is because you have the necessary kernel modules are not assembled when installing extensions, see the installer logs. - dsnk
  • Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR = <directory> and run Make again. - neo
  • @neo What it’s about, in the guest OS, install the kernel header files and packages needed to build the kernel modules. For your OS, the team will lose it, I will not tell you. - dsnk
  • Thanks!))) Google found a useful link. There it is just written how to install packages for building kernel modules: opennet.ru/base/dev/dev_linux_modules.txt.html . - neo